2025 Canadian Screen Awards.

NOMINEE
Rob Stewart Award for Best Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series

An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Synopsis:

An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet follows acclaimed actor and UN climate ambassador Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as he searches the world for the activists, scientists, and entrepreneurs who refuse to give into climate “gloom and doom” and instead forge solutions for our toughest problems. Across five continents and 17 countries, Nikolaj meets the people behind innovative, breathtaking, and sometimes amazingly simple solutions––from making clouds to shade sun-bleached coral reefs, to harnessing worms that can digest plastic, to forging a new balance between wildlife and humanity––that inspire his optimism for the future.

Nominees:

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Philip Clarke, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, David W. Brady, Kate Harrison Karman, Kathryn Liptrott, Joe Derrick, Patrick Cameron

Channel:

Crave

Production Company:

Cream Productions

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An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Synopsis:

An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet follows acclaimed actor and UN climate ambassador Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as he searches the world for the activists, scientists, and entrepreneurs who refuse to give into climate “gloom and doom” and instead forge solutions for our toughest problems. Across five continents and 17 countries, Nikolaj meets the people behind innovative, breathtaking, and sometimes amazingly simple solutions––from making clouds to shade sun-bleached coral reefs, to harnessing worms that can digest plastic, to forging a new balance between wildlife and humanity––that inspire his optimism for the future.

Nominees:

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Philip Clarke, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, David W. Brady, Kate Harrison Karman, Kathryn Liptrott, Joe Derrick, Patrick Cameron

Channel:

Crave

Production Company:

Cream Productions

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